Four attractive Madrileños swap partners, alibis and pop songs in a bedroom farce where fidelity rarely survives until the next chorus. Paula dumps the sensitive, bewildered Pedro because she has fallen for someone else, neglecting to mention that the lucky bastard is Javier, Pedro’s best friend. Javier, meanwhile, still shares a home and bed with the sharp-tongued Sonia, whom he keeps promising Paula he will leave—just as soon as he grows a spine. That poisonous little arrangement gives Emilio...
Two old flames meet at a wedding, trade wicked little barbs, share a hotel bed and discover that nostalgia is a dangerously persuasive wingman. At a New York wedding reception, an unnamed man in a tuxedo spots an unnamed woman hiding behind a cigarette and an unflattering bridesmaid’s dress. Aaron Eckhart approaches with the confidence of a practised flirt; Helena Bonham Carter parries him with the dry amusement of a woman who knows exactly what sort of trouble he is. Their banter initially...
Two bored swingers, two buttoned-up newlyweds and one sabotaged telephone turn a quiet Croatian coast into the cheekiest bisexual game of the 1970s. In the mythical seaside town of Leisure, Jack and Elvira are a happily married pair who treat seduction like a competitive sport, keeping score as they charm strangers into bed. Casual pickups have become too easy, so Elvira proposes a more interesting challenge: she will seduce Betsy, a shy young newlywed, while Jack takes aim at Betsy’s handsome...
A marriage gone cold returns to Capri, where old lovers, ripe memories and shameless temptation turn nostalgia into a very Italian erotic reckoning. In 1947, Fred and Jennifer return to Capri, the island where they met and fell in love during the war. They now have a child and the outward shape of a respectable marriage, but tenderness has curdled into indifference, and both are secretly more excited by memories of other lovers than by each other. When Fred is sent away on UNESCO business, he...
A tired couple squares off in the bathroom while their reflections quietly demonstrate that love—and lust—may depend on which side of the mirror you inhabit. Juliana Milheiro’s wordless 15-minute short turns an ordinary bathroom into a compact relationship laboratory. Babi Fernandes and Leonardo Corajo play a couple whose shared routine has lost its ease: small annoyances carry emotional weight, physical closeness no longer guarantees affection, and the room meant for private rituals becomes a...
A harried Berlin chambermaid, dry as a bone for seven years, stumbles naked into a blind artist's steamy embrace and finally gets soaked in pure, delicious desire. Antonia, a frazzled single mum and hotel housekeeper, dumps her lad on the bus to see his dad in France, rocks up late to her luxury digs job, and nearly gets the boot. A cheeky colleague clocks her tears and zero action for ages, urging her to seize the next chance. Entering an empty suite, she freezes as famous blind portrait...
Two female friends, one secluded country house, a mistress-and-slave game—and a gardener who finds himself recruited for far more than trimming the hedges. Stefy invites her lesbian friend Serena to spend the weekend at her house near Lecco, and the reunion soon loses any pretence of being an innocent country visit. An erotic film gets them excited, private teasing turns into a game of domination and submission, and one woman is tied to the bed while the other takes control. Their role-playing...
Sixteen-year-old French firecracker escapes her screwed-up family by sleeping her way through Paris – raw, relentless, unforgettable. Suzanne lives crammed in a Paris flat with her furrier parents and bullying writer brother. At summer camp she ditches her needy boyfriend Luc, loses her virginity to a random American lad, then returns home and beds one boy after another just to feel something. Dad (played by the director himself) packs up and leaves for another woman, Mum goes full neurotic...
A horny 17-year-old Chilean angel blogs her bisexual carnal romps while dodging hellfire from her strict evangelical clan. Daniela, a restless 17-year-old raised in a devout Protestant household in Santiago, gets caught mid-fornication and expelled from her Christian school, sparking family meltdown. Undeterred, she channels her raging curiosity into a confessional blog titled Young and Wild, candidly chronicling her firsts—self-pleasure, oral adventures, anal thrills, and steamy couplings with...
A divorced piano-bar singer meets a voluptuous drifter, retreats with her to the coast, and turns an erotic holiday into a mad feast of sex, food and possession. Paolo is a lonely municipal employee, divorced father and part-time piano-bar performer whose thoughts keep circling back to his mother, religion and the almost mystical hunger to become one with somebody. At his friend Nicola’s nightclub, he meets Francesca, a lush, beautiful wanderer newly returned from an affair with an Indian guru...
A respectable prison governor risks wife, child and career for Adèle Exarchopoulos—proof that some locks are easier to pick than a middle-aged man’s common sense. Jean Firmino is an able, outwardly decent governor of a women’s prison: married, settled, approaching forty and trusted to keep order without behaving like a tin-pot tyrant. Then Anna Amari arrives awaiting trial, angry, withdrawn and clearly carrying enough emotional baggage to fill an entire cell block. Her crime is deliberately...
A smug Paris fashion buyer follows a dark-haired beauty off the Métro expecting an easy afternoon in bed—and walks straight into an erotic trap designed to strip more than his trousers. Hugo Arnold is a polished, self-satisfied ladies’ man who spots Myriam Gwen applying her makeup on a Paris train and decides that she is his for the taking. She is gorgeous, amused by his confidence and just elusive enough to keep him trotting behind her. Their flirtation continues across platforms and through...
A lodger, a lonely mother and her fiercely jealous teenage daughter turn a quiet Russian country house into a reckless triangle of desire and rivalry. Writer Gennady Petrovich rents a room from Olga Sergeevna, a single mother living quietly with her daughter, Alice. His arrival brings adult company and romance into Olga’s life, and the pair soon become lovers. Alice watches their growing intimacy with resentment, feeling that the stranger has stolen her mother’s affection and disturbed the...
A bored Paris writer follows two elegant women through a velvet door marked desire—and finds domination, humiliation and danger waiting on the other side. Jean is a jaded writer who leaves his self-imposed isolation for a fashionable Paris party, where he runs into Claire, an old acquaintance with the cool manners of a society hostess and the eyes of a woman accustomed to getting exactly what she wants. Yet it is Claire’s quiet young companion Anne who catches his attention. Claire casually...
Wealthy hubby hires a peeping dick to film his wife's steamy Manhattan afternoons—turns out Pamela's the ultimate tease in this witty porno chic romp. When a suspicious rich executive doubts his alluring wife Pamela Mann's fidelity, he enlists private eye Frank to tail her through New York with a hidden camera. What unfolds is a parade of her shameless liaisons: a discreet park bench fellatio, a steamy romp with a saucy hooker friend, seducing a family-values politician, and even a mock radical...
A sculptor, his old flame and her teenage daughter drift into a soft-focus triangle where art, jealousy and obsession blur into something far darker. Paul Wyler is a successful sculptor whose creative spark has gone cold when Sarah, the great love of his past, suddenly re-enters his life. Time has changed Sarah, but her fifteen-year-old daughter Laura looks uncannily like the young woman Paul remembers, and his fascination quickly shifts from nostalgic affection to artistic and personal...
A frigid hotel inspector hunts for pleasure in Hong Kong, where seven-star luxury, corporate treachery and Noémie Merlant’s restless libido share one very expensive bed. Emmanuelle arrives in Hong Kong already having anonymous sex in an aircraft lavatory, yet her expression says less “mile-high ecstasy” than “another box ticked.” That disconnect drives Audrey Diwan’s sleek, strange reimagining: Emmanuelle can get laid, but she cannot quite feel anything. She works as a quality controller for a...
A London scientist and Yank student meet at a gig then fuck, suck and come for real through nine live indie concerts in this shamelessly honest 2004 look at millennial lust. You watch expecting another arty British wank-fest but Winterbottom actually went there and filmed two people having sex without the usual faked nonsense, matching the sweaty chaos of actual concerts to the sweaty chaos of actual fucking. Matt the glaciologist and Lisa the American exchange student hook up at a packed Black...
A bored aristocratic family brings a beautiful motorcycle daredevil home for a drink, then discovers she may be the blue-movie fantasy already living in their heads. A wealthy husband, his elegant wife and their grown son are lounging in a vast Italian castle, watching a grubby black-and-white stag reel as casually as another family might watch the evening news. The blonde performer catches their interest, but even pornography bores this jaded trio before long, so they head to a nearby carnival...
Two happy marriages, four restless adults and one dangerously simple idea: swap partners, tell no lies and hope jealousy has the weekend off. Rachel designs jewellery and seems perfectly content with Franck, while tattooed web designer Vincent has built an equally settled life with Teri, a former gymnast. Then Rachel and Vincent meet at work, trade a little brutally honest banter and spark at once. A dinner brings both couples together; before anyone has time to invent excuses, Franck and Teri...
